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Yogesh Paliwal

AMA: Cisco Director of Product Management, Yogesh Paliwal on Product Development Process

April 8 @ 9:00AM PT
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We have a small product and eng team, and are too early to have QA. Do you recommend we have eng test their own features? Is this the job of the product? Also should we have QA as part of our sprint, or the subsequent sprint?
Yogesh Paliwal
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Cisco Director of Product Management • 1y
Its great question.We have bunch of teams where dedicated QA role didn't exist, Making sure product quality is up-to required goal was left on developers, Product Manager...
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What role do engineers have in planning which features you build in the sprint? How do I get buy-in without giving them control?
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Control is tricky word. product development is organized chaos with some rythm to it.I am not an expert in sprint planing, but engineers shouldTechnical sounding board o...
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What is the right PM to Eng ratio? I’m the first PM and we have 8 engineers and 1 Designer.
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Cisco Director of Product Management • 1y
TL,DR: Without knowing specifics of your situation, it seems like you have right ration for now. Long version Process don't decide business, business decides processes D...
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How do you prevent rogue engineers from slipping in features that are good but not prioritized?
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There is no such thing as "rogue engineer" everyone comes to job to best of their abilities however I understand the nuanced question. here is my take Bunch of tools ...
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